Samuel reads Apple Books aloud, navigates chapters

The interesting part here is not the summary feature, it’s the fact that Samuel can actually operate Apple Books on your behalf. That moves it from “nice reader” into “agentic desktop workflow,” which is where this category starts to feel genuinely new.

• –The stack is well matched to the job: realtime speech for conversation, vision for page reading, and computer-use for navigation.
• –Search, chapter-jumping, and passage summaries make it useful for in-context reading, not just post-hoc note generation.
• –The macOS permissions and Apple Books dependency make it powerful but still a bit fragile, so this reads more like a strong prototype than a polished consumer app.
• –As an open-source repo, it’s also a useful reference for builders exploring Tauri, desktop automation, and multimodal agents.